[sudo-discuss] johnny ban / process?

[Lesley Bell]

Well, now it looks like he's been notified.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016, 11:01 PM Lesley Bell <zvezdalune at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jake,
>
> Johnny has been harassing me. He broke into my room last month and then
> assaulted me later the same day. I've blocked his ability to communicate
> with me. I've also had a temp restraining order granted against him.
>
> I wondered if I should email the listserv, but felt afraid. I did not want
> to deal with this being so public, so soon. I wanted to focus on other
> projects that made me feel strong again instead. I didn't realize that was
> expected.
>
> No one deserves get "kicked out [evicted]" over someone else's "sexual
> tension." No one deserves to be regularly called a "slut, bitch, rutt
> bitch, ho, whore, and tease." No one deserves to be violently touched in
> any way when they do not consent to it.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016, 10:31 PM Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> apparently at the meeting last week, Johnny was banned for Safe-Space
>> reasons, but nobody informed him about this.
>>
>> Earlier tonight, he asked if I would be at sudoroom tonight and i said
>> yes, and so he brought his project to work on, but he was stopped at the
>> door by someone who knew about the ban.  He asked for me and I spent the
>> next hour trying to sort through the mediation process and the
>> complexities of this particular situation.
>>
>> In the future, when people are banned at a meeting it's important that
>> someone makes an effort to contact someone who is being banned to let them
>> know, and to inform them of how to participate in the mediation process.
>> To do otherwise discredits our important conflict resolution process and
>> disregards the basic rights of the accused.  In this case Johnny can be
>> easily reached by email, and is included in this message.
>>
>> Johnny expressed a desire to participate in mediation as soon as possible,
>> since he is banned from the space until its conclusion.  He is also
>> dealing with eviction from his home right now so this is frustrating for
>> him, especially since he only found out about it after arriving at Omni to
>> work on a project.
>>
>> is anyone stepping up to be a conflict steward and/or neutral mediator?
>>
>> thanks
>> -jake
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